[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/libcurl: introduce a 'small' config option

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Wed,  6 Feb 2019 20:13:05 +0100
Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin at gmail.com> wrote:

> +config BR2_PACKAGE_LIBCURL_SMALL
> +	bool "disable non-basic features to reduce size"
> +	help
> +	  Compile libcurl only with basic features enabled, to save
> +	  about 50 KiB in the root filesystem.
> +
> +	  Following protocols/features are disabled:
> +	  - LDAP / LDAPS
> +	  - POP3 / IMAP / SMTP
> +	  - Telnet
> +	  - TFTP
> +	  - RTSP
> +	  - SMB / CIFS
> +	  - DICT
> +	  - Gopher
> +	  - Proxy support
> +	  - Cookie support

Discussing with Yann, we think that it would make sense to keep Proxy
support and Cookie support, which are both kind of expected for curl as
a tool for HTTP interaction. All the other features are not HTTP
related, so indeed it makes sense to disable them in this "small"
variant.

Thanks,

Thomas
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